comeuppancenoun [ S ]
uk/kʌmˈʌp.əns/us/kʌmˈʌp.əns/informal humorousa person's bad luck that is considered to be a fair and deserved punishment for something bad that they have done:
She'll get her comeuppance.
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Justice and fairness
- a fair crack of the whip idiom
- all's fair in love and war idiom
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- balanced
- by rights idiom
- even-handed
- eye
- fair
- fair go
- fair-minded
- fairly
- fairness
- fear
- law
- poetic justice
- pound of flesh idiom
- reap what you have sown idiom
- term
- there's one law for the rich and another for the poor idiom
- without fear or favour idiom
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